Glen Campbell

Welcome to my website. This is where I write about things that interest me. Hopefully, readers might occasionally find it interesting, too. I write mostly about things that happen in my life: personal history, music, software, travel, photography, cooking, and occasional ill-advised forays into politics (though I have to say that politics is a subject that should generally be avoided, because it tends to overshadow everything else that's useful or interesting).

Glen Campbell Photography, my photography website.

Essays & Poetry

A collection of prose and poetry, both serious and profane, on numerous subjects ranging from music to software to cooking to work and biography. Most of what I write is for my own memory, but it might be interesting to someone else.

  1. It's been a while
  2. Cider and Beer
  3. Travel Gear
  4. Running
  5. Photo Prompts
  6. Apple Airpods
  7. Stonehenge
  8. Syncope
  9. Vanity Nameservers with AWS Route53
  10. My Favorite Movies
  11. Waiting
  12. Oh, the places you'll go!
  13. Broadpool Cottages
  14. Rage, Rage
  15. My little ukulele
  16. The humble mailing list
  17. I love the “a”
  18. That old house
  19. Smart Locks
  20. On Being Fat
  21. Amazon
  22. Working Remotely
  23. Street Photography
  24. Please, allow me to rant a moment
  25. Bags
  26. Doing It Right
  27. Code for America
  28. Quite possibly the most important management advice you'll ever receive
  29. The management transition
  30. Happy Birthday
  31. Sacred Spaces
  32. Playing Around
  33. On Longer Days
  34. Chapter One
  35. Continuous Integration for php-opencloud
  36. Boost your website performance
  37. Working with Wok
  38. What's an xlerb?
  39. Programmable DNS
  40. I accidentally my servers
  41. Vanity nameservers with Rackspace DNS
  42. Music performance apps for the iPad
  43. How to talk about gun control
  44. I want to die in Autumn
  45. The best luggage I ever owned
  46. SQL is the new hotness
  47. Say what?
  48. Amo, amas, amat
  49. The Apogee Jam
  50. Life is short
  51. Alligator Gar
  52. The transit of Venus
  53. Understanding the Keystone Service Catalog
  54. Death
  55. Developing for the cloud
  56. The Library Crew
  57. Classical Music
  58. Marching Band
  59. Gadgets
  60. A joke my mother told me
  61. Snow Day
  62. Never trust anyone
  63. Flam, diddle, paradiddle, drag
  64. The most powerful emotion
  65. Go west, young man
  66. Begin at the beginning
  67. It's not all about the code.
  68. Software contingency planning, Donald Rumsfeld, and the epistemology of ignorance
  69. A good nights' sleep
  70. Goodbye, Bro
  71. How to deliver bad news to your boss
  72. How to write a performance review
  73. How to give a presentation
  74. How to give a status report

Ham Radio

These are a number of posts related to amateur ("ham") radio. Since they are probably not of general interest, I keep them in a separate section here. (K6GEC is my FCC-issued callsign.)

  1. Field Day
  2. HF frustration
  3. On the air!
  4. New dipole
  5. Building a shack
  6. Low-cost HF
  7. Ham etiquette and operating procedures
  8. Equipment
  9. The new rig
  10. Hitting the (HF) airways
  11. What's the ULS?
  12. The ARRL Book
  13. So what's next?
  14. K6GEC/AE!
  15. Again? Seriously?
  16. Chirp!
  17. Well, it's official now
  18. What is APRS?
  19. K6GEC/AG
  20. Studying

On Garner Road

A few years ago, I operated an infrequent podcast wherein I interviewed interesting and unusual people on the Internet. They are archived here for all to see. All the original recordings are available.

  1. Episode 22, Which is better—Pulp Fiction or The Empire Strikes Back?
  2. Episode 21, the Engineer in the kitchen
  3. Episode 20, the Southern Belle
  4. Episode 19, the Speculator
  5. Episode 18, The Critic
  6. Episode 17, Return of the FFundercats
  7. Episode 16, The Last Time Lord
  8. Episode 15, Life-streaming and rockets
  9. Episode 14, Rob Michael
  10. Episode 13, The Photojournalist on Honeymoon
  11. Episode 12, Father of Twins
  12. Episode 11, Memorial Day Special
  13. Episode 10, What do you get when you cross a moose with a unicorn?
  14. Episode 9, What the Warner Brothers Taught Me
  15. Episode 8, Film, Tech, and Whisky
  16. Episode 7, Pecans and Film Cameras
  17. Episode 6, Do you know Enid Blyton?
  18. Episode 5, The Queen of FriendFeed
  19. Episode 4, Sarah Vela
  20. Episode 3, The Other Scoble
  21. Episode 2, John Piercy
  22. Episode 1, Mary Carmen

Software, Web Projects

Various websites and software that I've written and deployed. Nearly all of this is open-source, and most of it was available on Github. As of 2025, I have cleaned up many of my Github repositories, and they are no longer available.

  1. Webcams
  2. Is the Internet still up?
  3. ickl.me
  4. clock.fyi
  5. Siteframe

Recipes

I enjoy cooking. These are dishes that I have adapted in some way or another.

  1. Gumbo (by Akiva)
  2. Waffles
  3. Biscuits
  4. Turkey, Cranberry, and Wild Rice Soup
  5. Buttermilk Pie
  6. Chocolate Krinkles
  7. The Scrivener Eggnog Recipe
  8. Soft White Bread
  9. Texas-Style Slow Cooker Chili
  10. Macaroni 'n' Cheese

Miscellaneous

  1. Colophon
  2. Résumé: Glen Campbell
  3. Tags
  4. Terms of Service